Learn how to configure Windows privacy settings to protect your personal data and online activity in just a few steps.

Your Windows computer collects all kinds of data about you. Although this is intended to enhance your experience, it can also raise privacy concerns. That's why it's important to take control of your ...

Microsoft has been testing ways to entice users onto its baked-in apps and to sign up for a Microsoft account. Photo: Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo Microsoft is treating Windows 11 more and more like a ...

In 2016, Microsoft made a decision everyone had been dreading – serving ads directly to your Windows 10 operating system. At first, it was only a lockscreen advertisement for "Rise of the Tomb Raider" ...

Microsoft introduced a lot of new features and appearance changes with Windows 11. It tweaked the taskbar and brought the Start menu to the center, which Windows users didn’t appreciate. Thankfully, ...

In the upper area, you can define the general layout and control how many icons should appear in the Start menu. In the Start menu settings, you can use sliders to specify what Windows 11 should and ...

A lightweight free utility gives Windows users an easy way to review and control system-level privacy settings without digging into the registry. Recently, I stumbled onto a free utility called O&O ...

Here we go again. Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be any more areas of Windows 11 vacant enough to squeeze an ad into, Micorost finds a way. The company has now begun testing placing ads ...

I’ve always wanted a simple way to tweak and tune my Windows PC without digging through endless settings. Winhance does exactly that. It's a single dashboard that lets me customize, clean up, and ...